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Dr. Elizaveta Strakhov

Dr. Elizaveta StrakhovMarquette University

Marquette Hall, 242

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-6865yelizaveta.strakhov@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

English

I work on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literary exchange between Francophone regions of medieval Europe (England, France, Northern Spain, Northern Italy, and what are now modern-day French Switzerland, French Belgium, and the Netherlands). My research engages with transnationalism studies, translation theory, and the history of the material text. I have an A.B. magna cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Marquette, I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval French at Northwestern University.

My first book, Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years War (Ohio State UP, 2022), emphasizes England’s Continental presence during the Hundred Years War for new understandings of England’s relationship to late medieval France and Italy. I have also co-edited, with Megan L. Cook, an anthology of medieval poetry about death and dying, entitled John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works (TEAMS, 2019) and am co-editor, with Sarah Baechle and Carissa Harris, of the edited volume Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature (Penn State UP, 2022). My work on medieval lyric, manuscript miscellanies, and Chaucer has appeared in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, New Literary History, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Yearbook of Langland Studies, among others. I am currently working on a new book about the rise of translation culture in fifteenth-century England as well as a collaboratively written book on Christine de Pizan's influence on late medieval English literature, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Like my scholarship, my teaching is committed to investigating the multilingualism and regional diversity of the medieval reading public. In this way, I build my students’ sensitivity to the concept of a “national” literary canon. Aided by my material text expertise, I make prominent use, in my teaching, of digitized manuscript archives and digital humanities projects. As I situate the text in its contemporary moment, I also draw it into generative new contexts, such as when I discuss the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 in the context of contemporary political protests or use Game of Thrones to think about the modern racial representation of the Middle Ages.

Courses Taught

HOPR 1955: Honors Core Freshman Seminar – Brave New Worlds
ENGL 3301: Here Be Monsters
ENGL 3302: Crossing Over
ENGL 3730: What is a Book?
ENGL 4303: Studies in the Medieval Literary Imagination – Castles in the Clouds
ENGL 4311: Themes in Medieval Literature – Make Love Not War
ENGL 4991: Senior Capstone - The History of the Book
ENGL 6210: Graduate Seminar - British Literature before 1500

Research Interests

Medieval Literature (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch)
History of the Book and Material Text
Translation Studies
Nationalism and Transnationalism Studies
Formalism

Publications

Selected

Books

Continental England: Form, Translation and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022)
Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature, ed. Sarah Baechle, Carissa Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov (Penn State University Press, 2022)
John Lydgate’s” Dance of Death” and Related Works, ed. Megan L. Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov (Western Michigan University Press, 2019)

Articles and Book Chapters

"Building Identity through Heraldry and Poetry in the Cour amoureuse,” New Medieval Literatures 26 (2026), 225-42.
“Life-Writing, Real and Imagined, in the Livre de cent ballades,” Journal of the Early English Book Society 29 (2025), 87-120.
“France.” Medieval Travel Writing: A Global History. Ed. Sebastian Sobecki, 305-21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
“Translation,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer, ed. Susan Nakley and Craig Bertolet, 176-87 (London: Routledge, 2024.
“Anthology vs Miscellany: John Shirley’s Scribal Agency and the Fantasy of Origins in the Medieval Compilation," Huntington Library Quarterly 85.4 (2023), pp. 601-17
“Opening Pandora’s Box: Charles d’Orléans’s Reception and the Work of Critical Bibliography.” Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 116.4 (2022), 1-37.
“‘Travel’ of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii.” The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature. Ed. Sif Rikhardsdottir and Raluca Radulescu, 125-35. London: Routledge, 2022.
Strakhov, Elizaveta and Sarah Wilma Watson. “Behind Every Man(uscript) is a Woman: Gender, Social Networks, and Westminster Abbey Library Manuscript 21.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 151-80.
Strakhov, Elizaveta. “Rondeau.” New Literary History 50.3 (2019): 469-73.
“Political Animals: Form and the Animal Fable in Langland’s Rodent Parliament and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018), 287-311.
“‘But Who Will Bell the Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, and the Hundred Years War.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016): 253-76
“Tending to One’s Garden: Deschamps’ ‘Ballade to Chaucer’ Reconsidered,” Medium Aevum 85.2 (2016): 236-58

Honors and Awards

- Marquette University, Provost's Office Research Enhancing One-Course Teaching Release for Spring 2026 (2025)
- Marquette University Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant (2024)
- Marquette University Goeddin Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2025)
- American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant (declined) (2019)
- Bibliographic Society of America Short-Term Fellowship (2019)
- Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship (2017)
- Rare Book School Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography (2015-17)